Display stand



Aug. 22, 1939.

F. C. STOCKER DISPLAY STAND Original Filed Nov. 17, 1937 PM? 1%. 0 a 1/v 8 l 4 4% E 6 0 1/0 F Q a W w 4 d w I 3 (6 a A f a 4 w z Patented Aug.22, 1939 DISPLAY STAND- Frederick C. Stocker, Rittman, Ohio, assignor toThe Ohio Boxboard Company, Itittman, Ohio,

a corporation of Ohio Original application November 17, 1937, Serial QDivided and this application May n sss, Serial No. 207,367., j

2 Claims. 01. 211-72) This application is a division of my copendingapplication for patent for Display stand, filed November 17, 1937,Serial No. 175,112.

The invention relates to display stands, and particularly to displaystands of the knockdown type.

One object of the invention is to provide a display stand of knockdownor collapsible character comprising appropriate elements formed ofsuitable material such as cardboard, boxboard, corrugated board or thelike, and capable, when collapsed or knocked down, of being shipped inflat condition. Thus, although the display stand may be made in avariety of sizes to suit various purposes of use, it may be so packedfor shipment as to occupy very little space.

Another object of the invention is to provide a multi-sided, orpolygonal, display stand of collapsible or knock-down form, which, whenset up for use provides a plurality of surfaces for the reception ofadvertising and other display matter printed or otherwise applied tothem, as desired, and a top upon which may be supported articles ofmerchandise, and the like, for display.

A further object of the invention is to supplement the display featuresof the stand with a tray or trays preferably carried by a side or sidesof the stand and so constructed that, although when in set up or displaycondition, they form pocket-like receptacles offstanding from such sideor sides, they may be collapsed and folded flat against the collapsedand folded body of the stand.

As disclosed in my copending application referred to the display standis provided with an interior bracing structure comprising a plurality ofcooperating elements which are initially of flat form, or may beconverted to fiat form for shipping purposes.

The invention contemplates a display stand of knock-down or collapsibleform, including a body member formed from a suitably scored and foldedblank of appropriate, relatively stiff, material, which, when set up,provides a polygonal body; and a tray or trays carried by a side orsides of said body member, each of said trays including a wall structurecollapsible with respect to the body member, the walls of the wallstructure provided with inwardly foldable flaps inter-engageable wheninwardly folded to maintain the tray or trays in set up condition, andeach of said trays provided with a bottom member adapted to be supportedby the upwardly turned edges of said inwardly folded flaps, all as willbe explained hereinafter more. fully and finally claimed. y

In the accompanying drawing illustrating the invention, inthe several.figures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figiue l is aperspective view of the display stand of the invention in set upcondition, 3

Fig. 2 illustrates the body member and its attached tray structures incollapsed or folded condition.

Fig. 3 is an end View showing the parts partially collapsed or folded,and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view, taken on the line 44of Fig. 1, and illustrating the tray construction.

The display stand includes a body member a formed of a blank of suitablematerial, such as cardboard, boxboard, corrugated board, or the like,suitably scored as indicated at l to provide a plurality of sides 2 (sixin the form shown), the edges of the blank being brought together asindicated at 3 and appropriately secured as by metal stitches or staples4. Attached by staples or the like 5 to selected sides of the bodymember thus formed are tray-forming members b comprising suitably scoredand folded blanks, the edges of which are joined as indicated at 6 as bystitches or staples 1. Each of these tray blanks comprises similar frontand back walls 8 and 9 respectively, each of which is provided with aninwardly foldable flap Hi, II, respectively, and side walls l2 and [3each of which is provided with an inwardly foldable flap l4, I5.

When set up for display purposes, the display stand is maintained inrigid distended condition by an appropriate interior bracing structure,and is provided, preferably, with an appropriate polygonal top 0disposed within the walls of the body member and supported therein bythe bracing structure. This top may be provided with a finger hole Hi tofacilitate its insertion and removal.

It will be obvious that, when in position, the top 0 serves as anadditional bracing means for holding the body member, at least so far asits upper portion is concerned, in distended condition.

In setting up the trays b for display purposes, it is required only thatthey be distended from the position illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3, thatthe flaps l0 and ll be folded inwardly and upwardly, and the flaps I4and [5 then similarly folded inwardly and upwardly between the alreadyfolded flaps l0 and II, and with their lateral edges in frictionalengagement with the adjacent faces thereof. This inwardly and upwardlyfolded arrangement of the flaps [0, II, I 4 and I5, as will be apparentfrom an inspection of Fig. 4, serves to maintain the walls of the traysin distended set up condition of tube form and, in addition, the freeedges of the flaps will support; the bottoms d of the trays whichbottoms comprise separate pieces disposed within the confines of thewalls 8, 9, I2 and I3 and having their edges in contact with thesewalls, thus supplementing the flaps l0, II, M and IS in holding thetray. structures in distended, set up condition.

As hereinbefore mentioned, the display stand may support articles ofmerchandise, or the like, to be displayed, not on1y upon its top 0, butalso within the pocket-like trays b, and its sides and other exposedsurfaces may be appropriately ornamented or decorated, or may bearsuitable advertising matter.

When knocked down and prepared for shipment, the body member w and itstrays b will collapse into substantially flat form, as illustrated inFig. 2, and all members of the bracing structure are preferably soformed that they may be disassembled and laid flat thereon, as may alsothe bottoms d of the trays and the top 0. This knocked-down assembly maythen, if desired, be enclosed within a suitable shallow packing case, orotherwise wrapped for shipment, as may be found expedient.

Various changes and modifications are considered to be within the spiritof the invention and the scope of the following claims.

What I claim is:

1. In a knockdown display stand, a collapsible multi-sided body memberadapted to be set up in polygonal formation, and a knockdown collapsibletray structure carried by a side of said body member, said traystructure including a plurality of walls each of which is provided withan inwardly foldableflap,said flaps interengaging when inwardly foldedto maintain the tray structure in distended set up condition, and abottom member supported upon the upturned edges of said flaps.

2. In a knockdown display stand, a collapsible multi-sided body memberadapted to be set up in polygonal formation, and a. knockdowncollapsible tray structure carried by a side of said bodyfinember, saidtray structure including four walls each of which is provided with aninwardly foldable flap, said flaps when inwardly folded being sodisposed that the flaps of two of the walls have their lateral edges inengagement with adjacent faces of the flaps of the other walls to thusmaintain the tray structure in distended rectangular condition, and abottom member supported upon the upturned edges of said flaps within thespace defined by said walls.

FREDERICK C. STOCKER.

